6/29/2023 0 Comments Life's Edge by Carl Zimmer![]() ![]() ![]() Is the apple sitting on your kitchen counter alive, or is only the apple tree it came from deserving of the word? ![]() The answer seems obvious until you try to seriously answer it. What exactly does it mean to be alive? Is a virus alive? Is a foetus? Carl Zimmer investigates one of the biggest questions of all: What is life? And it is bookended with the ultimate question: How do we define the thing that defines us? – Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The GeneWe all assume we know what life is, but the more scientists learn about the living world – from protocells to brains, from zygotes to pandemic viruses – the harder they find it is to locate the edges of life, where it begins and ends. It is about error and hubris, but also about wonder and the reach of science. This book is not just about life, but about discovery itself. ![]()
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